Arkathan
Emperor Mongoose
AI is an imitation of art.
Traveller, TAS, and AI
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Arkathan
Emperor Mongoose
I didn't bring up the great masters. Someone else did.
OriginalCaruso
Cosmic Mongoose
How many people buy games because of the art?
Not me. I’d rather have written content - accepting I may be odd in not appreciating the art.
I bought the latest D&D Players Handbook for the content and find the art an unwelcome distraction
Not me. I’d rather have written content - accepting I may be odd in not appreciating the art.
I bought the latest D&D Players Handbook for the content and find the art an unwelcome distraction
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Illustrations help.
Good art likely increases sales, and self advertizes.
Good art likely increases sales, and self advertizes.
They also increase cost to the point increased sales become necessary or costs become prohibitive. A lot of the art in RPG is dire and a waste of page count and ink.
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
For character art, I normally just go pay a caricature artist 15 or 20 bucks, ten minutes later and boom! cheap art that is good enough. No machines involved. If Mongoose used the same style art in their books and had 200 pieces of art in each book, the whole art budget would be like $4,000. Obviously, the price goes down with less art. How many CRBs has Mongoose sold? What is their breakeven number of books? What is their current art budget per book? (need an average based on page count so that we can compare apples to apples)
Also, obviously, if instead of this type of fast simplistic art, you could go for a full engineer's rendering of ships and equipment and be paying several thousand dollars per piece of art. They have to pick the type of art that fits their price point, or they can get away with inexpensive AI "art" in any style they want (including the engineer's technical renderings) with little or no people involved.
